Task Information: GOO students are to maintain a glossary of terms associated with students’ mathematics learning. Terms included may be mathematical terms or may be terms associated with students’ mathematical development, such as subitising. For each term in the glossary a brief explanation should be provided, together with an example.
Where appropriate a visual representation should be included (can be copied from a website, or created in word and added as a image [go to insert shapes/new drawing canvas and use the tools like the freeform line to create the image], or hand drawn and photographed and added as a image).
Assessment criteria
  • Comprehensiveness of glossary
  • Accuracy of explanation of terms with associated example and visual image


Maths Glossary
Maths Term
Explanation Link to a Website Diagram
Area
The size inside a flat shape. Measured in 'squares'. E.g. all these shapes have the same area of 92. Measure the area of a rectangle: width x height.
image
image
image ref: http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/area.html
Subitising (Perceptual)
Instantly reconising the number of objects in a small group, without having to count them.


Instantly recognizing the number of objects in a small group, without counting.
You can see that there are 5 coins without counting.

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Subitising
(Conceptual)
Kirsten
image
image

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/subitising.html
Place value

The value of where the digit is in the number, such as units, tens, hundreds, etc.

Example: In 352, the place value of the 5 is "tens"

Example: In 17.591, the place value of the 9 is "hundredths"

Place Value
Place Value

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/place-value.html
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Number fatcts to ten
Kirr
Doubling
Multiplied by 2, twice as much
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Rounding up
Rounding means reducing the digits in a number while trying to keep it's value similar.
The result is less accurate, but easier to use.
This is the common method
  • Decide which is the last digit to keep
  • Increase it by 1 if the next digit is 5 or more (this is called rounding up)
  • Leave it the same if the next digit is less than 5 (this is called rounding down)
Example: 243 rounded to the nearest ten is 240 (because 3 is less than 5)
http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/rounding.html


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Perimeter

"Squarer"

Irregular

Long

Denominator

Numerator

Equivalent fractions

Computation

Mulitiply

Add
... bringing two or more numbers (or things) together to make a new total.Here 1 ball is added
to 1 ball
to make 2 balls:
external image add.jpg
Using Numbers it is: 1 + 1 = 2
And in words it is
"One plus one equals two"
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/subtraction.html


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subtract
... taking one number away from another.
external image subtraction.gif
If you have 5 apples
and you subtract 2,
you will be left with 3
This would be written:
5 - 2 = 3http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/subtraction.html


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divide
karina
fraction
karina
decimal
karina
patterns
karina
algebra
letters and numbers are used in calculations. letters represent the unknown numbers. e.g. x-2=4. what is x? x is 6
grouping
Marcus
angles
The amount of turn between two straight lines that have a common end point (The vertex)
image
image

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/angle.html
ordering

Ordering Numbers

"Waiter, I would like a 7 and a 3, please..." NO, not THAT type of ordering. I mean putting them in order ...To put numbers in order, place them from lowest (first) to highest (last). This is called "Ascending Order" (think of ascending a mountain)
external image ascend.gif
Example: Place 17, 5, 9 and 8 in ascending order.


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numeral

Numeral

image
image

A symbol or name that stands for a number.

Examples: 3, 49 and twelve are all numerals

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/numeral.html

counting- we use numbers to count backwards and forwards, we count things to count how many things are there



Any number you can use for counting things: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... (and so on).Does not include zero.Does not include negative numbers.Does not include fractions (such as 1/2 or 3/7)Does not include decimals (such as 0.95 or 1.3)

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/counting-number.html
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graph
ag- graphs measure things. graphs shows how much something is.
bar graph
Marcus
http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/bar-graphs.html
table
Marcus
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html
pie chart
A pie chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, each sector

image
image

http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/pie-chart-pie-graph.html

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partitioning
Marcus
combining
Marcus
strategy
Marcus
100 chart
100 chart is a grid with numbers from 1 to 100
10 frame
ag-
MAB blocks
ag-
bridging to 10
Marcus
SENA testing
kir
measure
ag- to find out how far or how long something is.
scaffolding

Length
Marcus
http://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/metric-length.html
width
ag-
height
ag- to find out how tall or short someone is.
line

image
image

In geometry a line:
  • is straight (no curves),
  • has no thickness, and
  • extends in both directions without end (infinitely).
http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/line.html

units
Marcus
centimeter
ag-
millimeter
ag- we see these on rulers. they measure length. ten millimeters is 1 centimeter
meter
ag -
scale
ag- we weigh things to see if it is
calculate
Marcus





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